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Google's Treachery: Weaponizing Islamic Propaganda

Yesterday I posted on the Gaza jihadists using Google earth to target and rocket Southern Israel here.

Ralph B sent me the two screen captures below of Google Earth's map of Israel and environs, complete with all their "Global Awareness" options, featuring what can only be labeled Palestinian propaganda enabled by American leftists in the "give peace Jew-hatred  a chance" mode. Or else we're wrong, and there really are Palestinian childrens' theatre groups preaching non-violence and clinics in Gaza caring for those whose mental health has been injured by the "pervasive violence." Show me where that exists in the Muslim world? That is sooooo Jewish :)

The jihad plays the perenially miserable left for the stooges they grovel to be.

Here is the propaganda website spewing "every human has rights" claptrap (not in Islam, they don't). That organization is no longer operating, but its parent groups are, including the Aspen Institute, Columbia University and the International Council on Human Rights Policy: http://www.ichrp.org/

Whitewashing the "culture" that straps homicide bombs on babies and uses children as human shields and schools to launch rockets.

Google Owned YouTube Dhimmis Down on Islam - No Search Results for "Islam is"

The same dhimmi search results that I found on Google close to two weeks ago can be replicated at You Tube, aka dhimmi tube. If you input "Christianity is" or "Judaism is" or "Islam is" into the search box of Google, you receive ...well, entirely different results for search suggestions. CENSORSHIP: Look what you got here: Google Blocking "Negative" Searches Related to Islam ...

And they copped out and said it was an....  uh, accident.

Well the same, uh, accident is happening at google-owned youtube. Last week  Google claimed it was an "error" they were trying to fix. I didn't believe them then, and of course I was right.

 
Christianity is ........yields many search options

 
Judaism is yields many search results ...............

DO NOT SPEAK OF ISLAM YOU DIRTY KUFFIR!

 
 

hat tip Jim

CENSORSHIP: Google Blocking "Negative" Searches Related to Islam

Google is blocking "negative" searches related to Islam. Free thought, free will, free men? Only for left-o-fascists. Notice how quick Google is to scrub jihad websites, videos, and incitement to violence? Of course you haven't, because they don't. Google-owned you tube runs all the jihad porn, but if patriots get out of line, their vids are deleted and accounts suspended.

Google proudly endorsed Obama and was banning anti-Obama blogs during the election like clockwork.

The leftist Islamic alliance is hard at work. Evil makes for strange bedfellows.

Google's conduct in all things jihad has been unconscionable.

From the Next Web.

Google Blocking Negative Search Recommendations On Islam – Why? (hat tip Joe)

When you search for the major religions of the world, the monotheistic faiths for example, Google serves up suggestions for the search “Christianity is” such as, “a lie,” or false.” Try it on a a number of faiths, and then Islam.

Notice any difference?

Google is systematically blocking, it seems, all search suggestions for Islam. Why? To remove the chance of an adherent of the faith from being offended by a perhaps severe search suggestion? Why not treat all search terms equally?

Given the complete lack of suggestions, not just terms that could be perceived as negative, it seems that Google is covering its, well, behind.

UPDATE: A number of readers have told me that Google is claiming an "error" they are trying to fix. Just for knowing, I don't believe those lefturds. They are notorious.

GOOGLE DE-BOMBING OBAMA GOOGLE BOMBS - BUSH BOMBS WENT ON FOR YEARS

The poor American people - their brains are being tinkered, tickled, clubbed, monkeyed, toyed and played with like so much frickin playdo. NATIONALIZE GOOGLE! (just kidding)! But hell, if America has to pick up the tab for every failed Democrat designed bank mess, automotive company blah blah blah, then why not reap the profits of successful socialist leaning companies while keeping them honest at the same time? :)

Unlike Bush's 'Google Bomb,' Google Quickly Defuses Obama's FOX NEWS

A Google search of 'miserable failure' now returns Web sites about the Googlebombs rather than the original pages that were returned.

It took four years for Google to address the "Google bomb" that was lobbed at former President Bush. But it took the Internet behemoth only a few days to defuse the same attack on President Obama.

Four years versus a few days ... Some Googlers are asking why.

In 2003, President Bush's detractors successfully gamed the Google search engine by arranging to have countless Web sites link the words "miserable failure" to Bush's official biography on the White House Web site. The result was that when someone typed the search term "miserable failure" into the Google search box, Bush's bio rose to the top of the search results.

And that's how it stayed until 2007, when Google developed an algorithm to detect what became known as "Google bombs" and re-directed the term "miserable failure" to non-political pages.

Unfortunately for Obama, "miserable failure" reverted back to his bio when he moved into the White House. The new president was also Google-bombed with the phrase "cheerful achievement."

But this time, Google stepped in quickly, rectifying the situation in a few days, instead of four years.

The difference in time did not go unnoticed.

"You let this go on for the entire Bush administration," a reader named w3bgrrl wrote on a Google blog. "But since you bought the White House for Obama, you don't want your candidates harmed … And your claims not withstanding, even liberals know you're liberal."

But another writer, Mikkel deMib Svendsen, gave Google the benefit of the doubt. "I do think many of [Google employees] are liberals but I am also 100% confident that the large majority of them are also very professional people that take the job of creating a good and unbiased search engine very, very seriously," he wrote.

Google itself said the reason it took only a few days to redirect Obama's Google bomb was that, this time, it already had the algorithm in place.

"Though the spirit of change may be in the air in Washington, some things apparently stay the same," Google software engineer Matt Cutts wrote on a Google blog. "After we became aware of this latest Googlebomb, we re-ran our algorithm and it detected the Googlebomb for [cheerful achievement] as well as for [failure]. As a result, those search queries now return discussion about the Google bombs, rather than the original pages that were returned."

There's more, but you know the google.

MUSLIM GOOGLE

Have you seen this?
hat tip Spencer

UPDATE:From The Nose on your Face...... From Anthony:

Google’s practice of dressing up their logo to commemorate selective holidays has generated much speculation about the company’s politics. Some have suggested that Google’s yearly tributes to holidays like France’s Bastille Day, Earth Day, and the Persian New Year, and ignoring of holidays like Memorial Day, Christmas and Flag Day, indicates a decidedly anti-American and anti Judeo-Christian stance.

In an effort to counter these rumors, Google yesterday presented several new logo treatments the company is considering for some key holidays.

UPDATE: Hmmm, Muslim google may not be google. But would those tools over at google have the balls to sue? Never.

Check the whois for muslumangoogle.com . I'm not so sure that this is really a google company.
Registrant:
   Selim AKYUZ
   Selim AKYUZ        (sa@selimakyuz.com.tr)
   Kocaeli
   Merkez
   Kocaeli ,11111
   TR
   Tel. +90.905334682436
   Fax. +90.905334682436

(hat tip commenter over at JW)

GOOGLE BAN UPDATE: FULL ON ATLAS

Thought you might like an update on the Google Atlas ban first posted here. Atlas Shrugs: "SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE on November 27

How does Atlas grow? Google search is one critically important way. People find Atlas when they do a word search in google ie "Obama birth certificate", "Obama odinga", "honor killings", "Obama campaign finance fraud" - stories that I broke or did groundbreaking work on and Atlas is usually in the top five of the search results. That's how folks find my work and generally I keep 15-20% of them as return readers. Regular Atlas readers know the media refuses to cover these stories - building readership is the only way to boost awareness in this increasingly dangerous world.

A couple of days ago I was wiped off google search pages. Yes, if you google Pamela Geller or Atlas Shrugs, I come up, that is not the issue. My work is not there, it does not come up in google's s

After Chelsea Schilling,  the intrepid journalist at WND picked up the story  there was a short term lift, a partial ban so to speak.

Just so you know, the ban is back, full on. Any google search referrals (sans google image searches) has all but disappeared. Perhaps this is at work: GOOGLE ADMITS TO CENSORSHIP.

UPDATE: What's Google up to? No Quarter hat tip lutz

UPDATE Pastor Bob Homer suggested to me the following:

Tell your readers there is a better search engine:

 

www.ixquick.com

 

It comes with a tool bar insert if you choose, and best of all it leaves no trace of who you looked for in your search, no trail to follow.  Thought you might find it interesting.  I check your blog a few times a day as I consider it one of the best.

Thank you Pastor!

 

GOOGLE ADMITS CENSORSHIP!

Proof of my google ban. Now that Hussein is in the White House, Google (a chief fundraiser and potential member of O's administration) wants to control the news on their man. I never saw this kind of news suppression under Bush. You could say anything, BushChimpHitler, and get away with it.

BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE

Entering the dark age ....

Google cranks up the Consensus Engine The Register hat tip N47

By Andrew Orlowski

Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance.

THEY PICK AND CHOOSE?

Not so very long ago, Google disclaimed responsibility for its search results by explaining that these were chosen by a computer algorithm. The disclaimer lives on at Google News, where we are assured that:

The selection and placement of stories on this page were determined automatically by a computer program. A few years ago, Google's apparently unimpeachable objectivity got some people very excited, and technology utopians began to herald Google as the conduit for a new form of democracy. Google was only too pleased to encourage this view. It explained that its algorithm "relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. "

That Google was impartial was one of the articles of faith. For if Google was ever to be found to be applying subjective human judgment directly on the process, it would be akin to the voting machines being rigged.

For these soothsayers of the Hive Mind, the years ahead looked prosperous. As blog-aware marketing and media consultants, they saw a lucrative future in explaining the New Emergent World Order to the uninitiated. (That part has come true - Web 2.0 "gurus" now advise large media companies).

It wasn't surprising, then, that when five years ago I described how a small, self-selected number of people could rig Google's search results, the reaction from the people doing the rigging was violently antagonistic. Who lifted that rock? they cried.

But what was once Googlewashing by a select few now has Google's active participation.

This week Marissa Meyer explained that editorial judgments will play a key role in Google searches. It was reported by Tech Crunch proprietor Michael Arrington - who Nick Carr called the "Madam of the Web 2.0 Brothel" - but its significance wasn't noted. The irony flew safely over his head at 30,000 feet. Arrington observed:

Mayer also talked about Google’s use of user data created by actions on Wiki search to improve search results on Google in general. For now that data is not being used to change overall search results, she said. But in the future it’s likely Google will use the data to at least make obvious changes. An example is if “thousands of people” were to knock a search result off a search page, they’d be likely to make a change. Now what, you may be thinking, is an "obvious change"? Is it one that is frivolous? (Thereby introducing a Google Frivolitimeter™ [Beta]). Or is it one that goes against the grain of the consensus? If so, then who decides what the consensus must be? Make no mistake, Google is moving into new territory: not only making arbitrary, editorial choices - really no different to Fox News, say, or any other media organization. It's now in the business of validating and manufacturing consent: not only reporting what people say, but how you should think.

GOOGLE RESPONDS TO WND INQUIRY, PARTIALLY

Chelsea Schilling, the intrepid journalist at WND that did the article on my Google ban,   contacted Google about the “sandboxing” issue, and this is what they said:

Hi Chelsea,

Thanks for your inquiry. Atlas Shrugs was in violation of our terms of service. When we are made aware of a potential policy violation, our team of specialists will manually review the site to make sure it abides by our program policies. In this case we have stopped serving ads to Atlas Shrugs.

More information about our policies can be found here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182&topic=8423

Thank you,

Elisabeth

Needless to say,  I have no idea what kind of violation they are talking about' NONE. They told me nothing.I asked Schilling if she could dig deeper and find out what violation.

I have written many times and met a wall of silence.

The good news - I am back on Google. Thanks World Net Daily.

UPDATE: But my google search box is still blacklisted. Try it (right sidebar)  - search any term FORBIDDEN!

Reader D adds,

"And by the way, you should know that when one enters a search term in the box, and press ENTER -twice- then it finds the pages. This is because the first time it is from your site, so it gets blocked and a page from google's site says forbidden. After that it's the same URL, doing the same search on/through your site, but no longer from your site's webpage, so it works (any number of times when not done from your site). You are still blacklisted, and by removing the search box you have removed some of the evidence that she was!!!!!

(it may be that this is a misinterpretation, but I doubt it. Google did claim that you violated their TOS, so I think you're right that the search box failing is their work. Things went down simultaneously for you, due to actions at Google's end)

users can still use the search if they press enter twice.. once and they get the error. then click Go and it will bring results.  Because the second time they are doing it from Google's page not your page.

it's a technical measure google took against you, not a particularly intelligent one, but it is damaging and bad and you should keep the evidence up. That will also pressure them to put it right.

GOOGLE'S ADMITS CENSORSHIP

“Right now, we’re trusting Google because it’s good, but of course, we run the risk that the day will come when Google goes bad,” Wu told me.

It's the New York Times  talking about google censorship, so you know it is a politically correct kind of censorship --but underneath the tuchas kissing, Google admits to massive information manipulation

Google's Gatekeeper NY Times (hat tip Bare Naked Islam)

Today the Web might seem like a free-speech panacea: it has given anyone with Internet access the potential to reach a global audience. But though technology enthusiasts often celebrate the raucous explosion of Web speech, there is less focus on how the Internet is actually regulated, and by whom. As more and more speech migrates online, to blogs and social-networking sites and the like, the ultimate power to decide who has an opportunity to be heard, and what we may say, lies increasingly with Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and even eBay.

The most powerful and protean of these Internet gatekeepers is, of course, Google. With control of 63 percent of the world’s Internet searches, as well as ownership of YouTube, Google has enormous influence over who can find an audience on the Web around the world. As an acknowledgment of its power, Google has given Nicole Wong a central role in the company’s decision-making process about what controversial user-generated content goes down or stays up on YouTube and other applications owned by Google, including Blogger, the blog site; Picasa, the photo-sharing site; and Orkut, the social networking site. Wong and her colleagues also oversee Google’s search engine: they decide what controversial material does and doesn’t appear on the local search engines that Google maintains in many countries in the world, as well as on Google.com. As a result, Wong and her colleagues arguably have more influence over the contours of online expression than anyone else on the planet.

Check out how Google cops out on Youtube aka dhimmitube (owned by google) and their the jihad loving, Military hating leftard police . Here, for example is  another jihadi propaganda video showing the murder of US servicemen. It violates several of YT's terms of service, including physical attack, use of explosives, promotes hatred and violence, etc. Please flag it, and any other similar videos from this user.

Iraq War For Jihad

Allahuakbar!!!

More on the Times article and youtube below.

WORLD NET COVERS THE GOOGLE BAN ON ATLAS

Chelsea of World Net Daily has picked up on this outrage:  "SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE.

Check it out:

Google 'censoring' anti-Obama bloggers?
Writer claims Internet giant banning stories that expose president-elect

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Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs

Is Google censoring anti-Obama stories?

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs claims the search engine giant has banned her groundbreaking articles about Obama – a technique many people refer to as "sandboxing."

"There was no warning, no notice, nothing," Geller told WND. "They have basically sandboxed me."

"Sandboxing" happens when Google strips a website's rankings from its search engine results. According to some theories, this happens to new websites when Google puts them into a holding area known as a "sandbox" until the site gains credibility.

However, Atlas Shrugs is not new, and Geller believes her stories have been intentionally suppressed by the Internet giant – especially ones about President-elect Obama. She said her exclusive stories about Obama's birth certificate that once received thousands of hits every day will not come up in Google word searches.

"I was in the top five search results before the story got legs," she said. "These stories drove 12,000 to 15,000 people to my site every day."

But now a November earnings report from shows her Google clicks and revenue flat lining since Nov. 20. Daily page impressions dropped from an average of 20,000 and 45,000 to single digits – overnight. Also, her Google images hits are slowed to only 4,720 since that day, while Yahoo and other search engines list them in the hundreds of thousands.

"The media gives blogs the silent treatment," she said. "The only thing we have is these searches. The Google word search is gone – all gone. When you are in my business, that's how you build readership."

On July 4, Geller featured a story about a board-certified forensic expert who declared Obama's online birth certificate a "forgery" and an "obvious fake." She attributes most of her problems with Google to that report.

"I think that it's the birth certificate story," Geller said. "All of the sudden, my numbers were down by 10,000."

She has also featured reports on Obama's support of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and cases of alleged campaign finance fraud involving his campaign. Geller believes Google is censoring her stories because it objects to their content.

"It's a freedom of speech issue," she said. "Who are they to decide what should be searched? They don't like what I'm running so they ban me?"

Geller said she has contacted Google three times, and the company said it has filed "requests for consideration" to put her stories back on Google's search pages.

"They want me to sit this out for six months," she said. "Are they kidding? Based on what?"

Geller said the top Google word searches used to be about Obama's birth certificate. But now she said the searches only return "a bunch of speculating and hearsay" to make the stories appear to be unfounded conspiracy theories.

She believes the censorship could have something to do with Google CEO Eric Schmidt's relationship with the president-elect. According to recent reports, Schmidt will soon be holding a position in the Obama administration.

Geller said she has hired a cyber-crime consulting firm to remove her articles from the search engine's "sandbox" and has asked her readership to help fight censorship with donations.

"Google cannot arbitrarily silence voices of freedom," she said. "Blogs are the last vestige of free speech."

UPDATE: The interesting timing is that it seems to correspond with the "Google Search Wiki"

Click here: The Liberty Sphere: Google Blacklists Geller's Atlas Shrugs

UPDATE: Yid with Lid: CENSORSHIP--GOOGLE CENSORING ATLAS SHRUGS FOR TELLING TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA 

"SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE

How does Atlas grow? Google search is one critically important way. People find Atlas when they do a word search in google ie "Obama birth certificate", "Obama odinga", "honor killings", "Obama campaign finance fraud"  - stories that I broke or did groundbreaking work on and Atlas is usually in the top five of the search results. That's how folks find my work and generally I keep 15-20% of them as return readers. Regular Atlas readers know the media refuses to cover these stories - building readership is the only way to boost awareness in this increasingly dangerous world.

A couple of days ago I was wiped off google search pages. Yes, if you google Pamela Geller or Atlas Shrugs, I come up, that is not the issue. My work is not there, it does not come up in google's search results. It is critical to building Atlas that I be searchable.Youtube searches are still intact as are images.

Further my google search box (left sidebar) which I use almost constantly to search my site for reasearch (as do my readers) has been dramtically affaected. Input any term, any word in my search box and the same thing comes up - FORBIDDEN.

I have had to hire a separate security/consulting firm to get me back online. It is costly.  I need your help. Anything you could contribute to help offset the cost - it's a lot of hours would be greatly appreciated.

You can paypal my email address writeatlas@aol.com - go here to paypal.

Or write me offline if you wish to send a check.

UPDATE: And my google ads, which used to throw off a few bucks a day, generate nothing now. Nada. Zilch. Zero.

I juat want to be Atlas again in the googlesphere

I earned it.

THE GOOGLE OBAMA CONNECTION:

Owen Thomas, editor of the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, has penned a reasoned argument as to how Google is winning political influence in the wake of this month's presidential election. In the column he wrote, he takes a sharp-tongued look at how CEO Eric Schmidt appears to be trying to win and use influence in the new Washington.

Schmidt is savvy enough to realize that YouTube's growing prominence as a media outlet could help the company become a larger political player -- which is why the site sponsored two campaign debates. Traffic? Come on. YouTube hardly needs the help.

Thomas concludes:

In that light, isn't there something that stinks about handing the president's weekly addresses to a single commercial outlet controlled by a political ally of the president? Obama's YouTube chats amount to a large, unspoken, behind-the-scenes government kickback. Every election has something dirty about it. And there's no question Google won this contest.

UPDATE: Google CEO Could Be Obama's Tech Advisor

Rumor has it that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be occupying the newly-formed tech advisor position to the president of the United States. Barack Obama created this position just shortly before visiting the Google headquarters during his campaign, and some believe that the reason this happened was because the job was promised to Schmidt.

The head of Google endorsed the Democratic candidate throughout the elections, though the ads the company posted on various sites were mostly Republican. However, Google employees donated far more to Obama's campaign than they did for John McCain – about $487,355, and $20,600 respectively, as estimated by the Wall Street Journal.

Me thinks it was the birth certificate story .... I broke it. I have the forensics.

Remember this back in June? Atlas Shrugs: GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES

UPDATE 2:23pm: Jan did a little investigating:

How is this one for lies?

Policies and Principles: Google and censorship

It is Google's policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so. When we remove search results for these reasons, we display a notice on our search results pages. Please note: For some older removals (before March 2005), we may not show a notice at this time.

UPDATE: Mike in Texas pointed me to Google Ranking Diagnostics

Website Diagnostics panel
Helping you self-diagnose your website

Please note that this page is using NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOFOLLOW to prevent it from being indexed.
Check URL: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ -
what to look for

Uh, please note I am indexed, and I am archived.

Banned from Google
Penalized by Google

UPDATE: From reader Mairi:

After checking the online support site, I found out there is NO WAY to access information on WHY a site has been deemed "Forbidden" or HOW to get the problem corrected.

     I phoned google again. The young "no named" woman stated that NO PERSON handles the problem, and NO ONE would take my call. When I told her I had been to the support site, and there was NO WAY to get info or support there, she stated that was my ONLY option.

     The rest of the conversation was something like this:
Me: Someone had to have made a conscious decision to label the info on the Atlas site "Forbidden"
She: I don't know who that person would be, I cannot release any "name" information, and if there is no support online, than there is no support, we don't do "tech" support, and there is no one I can transfer you to who does "tech" support.
Me: Someone made the decision to label the site info "Forbidden", who do I contact to straighten this out?
She: I cannot give you any other information. I don't have any one to transfer you to. Me: So if a site has been labeled "Forbidden", then that decision has been handed down, and there is nothing else that can be done?
She: I would guess so.
Me: google STINKS! Mairi

UPDATE: Have a look at my google earnings for November:

Totals	582,541	1,503			$262.67
Date	Page impressions	Clicks	Page CTR	Page eCPM [?]	Earnings
Saturday, November 1, 2008	25,411	60	0.24%	$0.81	$20.59
Sunday, November 2, 2008	28,109	57	0.20%	$0.53	$14.79
Monday, November 3, 2008	41,367	90	0.22%	$0.67	$27.80
Tuesday, November 4, 2008	42,606	52	0.12%	$0.26	$11.25
Wednesday, November 5, 2008	47,634	47	0.10%	$0.27	$12.96
Thursday, November 6, 2008	36,408	53	0.15%	$0.32	$11.63
Friday, November 7, 2008	32,684	49	0.15%	$0.34	$11.03
Saturday, November 8, 2008	27,604	33	0.12%	$0.35	$9.65
Sunday, November 9, 2008	30,147	66	0.22%	$0.43	$13.10
Monday, November 10, 2008	36,732	103	0.28%	$0.36	$13.24
Tuesday, November 11, 2008	31,011	129	0.42%	$0.58	$17.95
Wednesday, November 12, 2008	28,618	118	0.41%	$0.68	$19.38
Thursday, November 13, 2008	34,782	139	0.40%	$0.36	$12.65
Friday, November 14, 2008	30,009	128	0.43%	$0.51	$15.41
Saturday, November 15, 2008	20,087	93	0.46%	$0.49	$9.79
Sunday, November 16, 2008	20,132	91	0.45%	$0.44	$8.91
Monday, November 17, 2008	25,438	76	0.30%	$0.48	$12.23
Tuesday, November 18, 2008	25,990	74	0.28%	$0.29	$7.54
Wednesday, November 19, 2008	17,692	45	0.25%	$0.72	$12.75
Thursday, November 20, 2008	13	0	0.00%	$0.03	$0.00
Friday, November 21, 2008	17	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Saturday, November 22, 2008	16	0	0.00%	$0.01	$0.00
Sunday, November 23, 2008	9	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Monday, November 24, 2008	9	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Tuesday, November 25, 2008	14	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Wednesday, November 26, 2008	2	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Totals	582,541	1,503			$262.67
Averages	22,405	57	0.26%	$0.45	$10.10

UPDATE: Reader TGH posted this -- until it's censored?

UPDATE: Boycott Google

GOOGLE AND OBAMA - YES, THE STATE CAN!

Googvle CEO publicly crosses the over into the darkside. You thought Bush a badster for spying on savage Islamic killers? HA! Privacy issues - Obama and Google. YIKES!

Expect the fairness doctrine to be passed with little fanfare forever altering the talk radio landscape.
Expect blogs like this to be labeld "hate speech".

We know what a leftwing whore is Google the refused to cooperate in counter jihad efforts but sold out freedom fighters in China (here). They happily allied themselves with terror machines,  block blogs in China, kowtowing to censorship, and block anti-Obama blogs.

Atlas reader techgirl sent this and lamented, "I just found out that Google's CEO has officially endorsed Obama. As someone who works at a very large software company myself, this news makes me shudder. It has Fascism written all over it and further solidifies my belief that Obama will hijack the internet itself if allowed to come to power. Please take a look at this article..people need to know what Google is about, espeically people in the tech industry. Its already really bad for us conservatives in high tech -- kinda like Hollywood, which is why I keep my identity relatively secret. I don't think I could lose a job over it, but I don't trust that it couldn't happen, especially in the future."

Here's the article over at The Gadfly:

As a long time employee at a very large software company, this news gave me more than pause. PEOPLE MUST know about the dangerous territory into which Obama will lead this nation.  I can't imagine what I'd do if my company started working for the government. But it could happen, especially if the economy tanks to such an extent that only a deal with the devil will ensure survival AND especially since Obama plans to increasingly involve areas of the private sector in government, for government.

So the main - but largely ignored - news is that Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, has announced that he is endorsing Obama for president.

Schmidt will appear Tuesday with Obama in the tightly contested state of Florida to talk about the economy. Although Schmidt announced his backing of Obama in Monday's Wall Street Journal, he has been advising the campaign on technology and clean-energy issues for most of the summer.

Read it all

More on Google: Eeeeeeeeeeevil tool

NEO EXPRESS SHUT DOWN BY OBAMA SUPPORTERS UPDATE: Add Thunder Road, Lock and Load

GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES. Google shuts down another site:

Neo NeoCon wrote me,

My apologies to NE readers; Apparently a wave of Obama supporters has “flagged” the Neocon Express as a “spam” sight and have successfully shut us down until Google’s Blogger programmers can confirm that we are not a spam site. The process apparently takes about 48 hours.

Apparently, this is a glitch in the ‘Blogger’ system which allows anyone on the net to “flag” any Blogger site as a spam site. With enough “flags” they can shut down a site until Google manually inspects the site to confirm it’s a legitimate blog and not automated spam. Unfortunately, Obama supporters have been abusing this method which was designed to filter out real net spammers, and have been systematically flagging high profile “anti-Obama” blogs on the vast ‘Blogger’ system as “spam” in order to shut down debate.

I trust that Google will have us up and running in 48 hours as their e-mail to me stated. Again, My apologies; apparently it’s just part of the election “war” that is going on, especially on the internet, so I won’t take it personally. I do think it’s a bad reflection on Obama supporters.

Keep my fingers crossed on Typepad.

UPDATE: Thunder Road is down. Just got this:

Seems someone is scared of the truth as I found this when I went to post this morning.

This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked.

This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.

Its the same message Concrete Bob received and Rosemary posted for him.

This is bullshit as it appears that someone does not approve of the idea of free speech especially when the speech doesn't conform to their ideas. 

I'm always asked: "Why are the milblogs important?"  Well we can see the reason why. We get the message out!  We can not allow others to dictate the form or content of the message.  The message must always be the truth, whether they want to hear it or not. 

Regardless of the outcome with Google's review, The Thunder Run is now in the process of purchasing a domain and finding seperate hosting services...I suggest anyone else that uses Blogger to do the same, its something I should have done a long time ago.

With John Donovan's permission I will be posting most of my stuff at Castle Argghhh! until further notice.

David M

Editor: The Thunder Run

UPDATE: Another blog flagged. Ed over at Lock and Load has been flagged.

FYI, It looks like I've been tagged as a spam blog.  A few days ago I
deleted and marked as spam two "invitations" on my  Haloscan comments
area by "Omar" to visit Ikhwnweb .  (muslim brotherhood)

I can only guess Omar came back and found his invitations deleted and
then flagged me as a spammer.  I've responded to Blogger who claims they
will review Lock and Load and get back within two days.

UPDATE: Bloggasm » Who’s responsible for shutting down a number of anti-Obama Blogspot accounts?

Holy shia! The New York Times noticed (well their bits blog did). They are blaming it on Hillary, they got it wrong again. Every blog that I know was not a pro-Hillary blog. The New York in-the-tank-Obama Times.

Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers hat tip Mitchell Langbert

The bloggers in question, most of them supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and all of them opposed to Senator Obama, received a notice from Google last week saying that their sites had been identified as potential “spam” blogs. “You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog,” the Google e-mail read.

Many of the bloggers were affiliated with JustSayNoDeal.com, a Web site that opposes Senator Obama. They include http://bluelyon.blogspot.com, http://comealongway.blogspot.com, http://hillaryorbust.blogspot.com and http://mccaindemocrats.blogspot.com.

In an article that appeared on Bloggasm.com, the reporter Simon Owens spoke with some of the affected bloggers, who said they believed that Google had fallen prey to a campaign by activists supporting Senator Obama. According to the bloggers, the Obama supporters had clicked on a “flag” on the anti-Obama blogs alerting Google that they were spam.

If so, that would be an embarrassment for Google. On its Web page explaining the “flag” feature, Google says that “it can’t be manipulated by angry mobs. Political dissent? Incendiary opinions? Just plain crazy? Bring it on.”

And another! >Gayle Miller of Savkobabe.blogspot.com

 

UPFATE: Blog Shutdowns: Spam Attack from IPs Assigned to barackobama.com (by NancyA at No Quarter)

The other day Sitemeter attacked Internet Explorer and shut down quite a few sites. Anyone with a sitemeter, in other words, all of us

 

Today, there is another report on Blog Shutdowns from Death By A 1000 Papercuts. Here is what they had to say:
 

 

“At least one of the attacks in the latest wave of blog shutdowns this past week came from IPs assigned to barackobama.com.” This leaves us with an unanswered question. Who or what caused the “malfunction” in Sitemeter?

ANTI-SEMITIC GOOGLE HIGHLIGHTS NAKBA, THE JIHAD LIE

Google is deleting anti-Obama blogs, reconfiguring search results and abusing their power by giving up freedom fighters and reformers to their despotic governments -- for what? To advance their malevolent agenda. Smells like fascism. As the monster removes its mask, we see the evil that fuels this sickness

Google Earth Highlights the Nakba  STEPHANIE RUBENSTEIN, J Post hat tip Van

Anti-Israel activity on the Google Earth application has been stepped up this week, with the message "Nakba - The Palestinian Catastrophe" now appearing when users scroll over the orange dots that speckle locations across the entire map of Israel.

Google spokesperson Jessica Powell said on Tuesday that Google has no plans to restrict the application's content, despite claims that Israel is being uniquely and malevolently targeted. CONTD...

GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES

I have long been warning of the agenda Google pursues. Too long. Well they have really come out of the liberal fascist closet on this one. BTW, got a gmail account? I wouldn't. They are a dangerous company. Go here and scroll. This is proto-typical of the left. They cannot compete - they cannot debate.What is this but a club to the tenets of free speech?  What is the fairness doctrine but a club to the free market of ideas?

The following is an update on this post: OBAMA: TERROR BLOGS CHECK! COUNTER JIHAD BLOGS DELETE! ANTI-OBAMA SITES BLOCKED!

Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform hat tip JJ

-By Warner Todd Huston, Town Hall

It looks like Google has officially joined the Barack Obama campaign and decided that its contribution would be to shut down any blog on the Google owned Blogspot.com blogging system that has an anti-Obama message. Yes, it sure seems that Google has begun to go through its many thousands of blogs to lock out the owners of anti-Obama blogs so that the noObama message is effectively squelched. Thus far, Google has terminated the access by blog owners to 7 such sites and the list may be growing. Boy, it must be nice for Barack Obama to have an ally powerful enough to silence his opponents like that!

It isn't just conservative sites that Google's Blogger platform is eliminating. For instance, www.comealongway.blogspot.com has been frozen and this one is a Hillary supporting site. The operator of Come a Long Way has a mirror site off the Blogspot platform and has today posted this notice:

I used to have a happy internet home on Blogger: www.comealongway.blogspot.com. Then on Wednesday night, June 25, I received the following e-mail:

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://comealongway.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

It turns out that there is an interesting pattern where it concerns the blogs that Google's Blogspot team have summarily locked down on their service. They all belong to the Just Say No Deal coalition, a group of blogs that are standing against the Obama campaign. It seems the largest portion of these blogs are Hillary supporting blogs, too.

All I can say is, WOW! If Google is willing to abuse its power like this even against fellow leftists, what does it plan against conservatives, the folks Google hates even more!?

Here is a list of the Blogspot blogs that have been frozen by Google thus far:

· Blue Lyon @ http://bluelyon.blogspot.com

Come A Long Way @ http://comealongway.blogspot.com

Hillary or Bust @ http://hillaryorbust.blogspot.com

· McCain Democrats @ http://mccaindemocrats.blogspot.com

· NObama Blog @ http://nobamablog.blogspot.com

· politicallizard.blogspot.com @ http://thelizardannex.blogspot.com

· Reflections in Tyme @ http://reflections-in-tyme.blogspot.com

UPDATE: July 31: Mitchell Langbert who wrote a Freedom of Information Act request to release Obama's birth certificate and ran a petition for an investigation has been suspended.
www.mitchell-langbert.com.

Google Earth Rewrites History

The more we know the more, the more we know Google is a dangerous company.

Google Earth: A New Platform for Anti-Israel Propaganda and Replacement Geography by  Andre Oboler

• Virtual Israel, as represented by Google Earth, is littered with orange dots, many of which claim to represent "Palestinian localities evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war." Thus, Israel is depicted as a state born out of colonial conquest rather than the return of a people from exile. Each dot links to the "Palestine Remembered" site, where further information advancing this narrative can be obtained.

• Many of the claims staked out in Google Earth present misinformation, and sites known to be ruins in 1946 are claimed to be villages destroyed in 1948. Arab villages which still exist today are listed as sites of destruction. The Google Earth initiative is not only creating a virtual Palestine, it is creating a falsification of history.

• The concept of "replacement geography" replaces the historical connection of one people to the land with a connection between another people and the land. The inclusion of virtual Palestine, superimposed on Israel in the core layer of Google Earth, is an example of replacement geography advanced by technology.

• Those wishing to explore Israel in Google Earth are immediately taken to a politically motivated narrative unrelated to their quest. Google should remove the narrative and treat Israel as it treats every other country on the globe. The core layer of Google Earth should be ideology free and not serve as a platform for indoctrination or a campaign to wipe Israel off the virtual map.

SCREWGLE

Mac is on da money. Basta to these leftwing cowards. They'd be the first to go should those they enable seize power. Our boys and girls are fighting and dying so that these nancy boys can tiptoe thru the tuilps unfettered.

Announcing the Blog Burst Google Boycott Macranger hat tip lovely larwyn

I know that it’s beyond expecting Google to celebrate anything except that which is negative to America, so I don’t expect them to memorialize our troops on memorial day. Yahoo has. Ask.com has. Even Dogpile has.

But Google has not. In fact it has yet to ever recognize anything except leftist causes. While I can’t influence Google’s editorial decision I can control whether I give their spots face time on this blog. Since this blog averages 30,000 hits a day I believe that the best way I can show my displeasure for their oversight, is to remove their ads.

If you have a website, blog, and you’re tired of watching Google disrespect the troops I ask you in the spirit of patriotism and for the memory of those who have fallen to remove your associations from Google as well.

Perhaps they will get the message and perhaps they won’t, but I don’t care. They paid next to nothing for their adsense program - if they paid at all.

So on this memorial day how about passing it around and following my example.

Al Manar Reporter Arrested in Terror Plot

Please note that al manar, Hezb'Allah's news network, is a news source for Google but they have banned the pre-eminent journalist who exposes U.N. corruption has disappeared from google.

"We periodically review news sources, particularly following user complaints, to ensure Google News offers a high quality experience for our users," it said. "When we reviewed your site we've found that we can no longer include it in Google News."

Just for knowing, I got my best intel on the UN from Matthew Lee, the editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, a pint-sized Internet news operation.

Google, aligned with the Islamic terror force. Media jihad baby.

Morocco Arrests 23, Including Manar Correspondent, Over Terror Plot hat tip rut

An investigation by the judicial authorities led to the sweep Monday in the capital Rabat.

A security source told Agence France Presse several arms were seized during the raids.

A report by the state-run news agency MAP identified only three suspects: Mustapha Moatassim, the secretary general of a small, legal Islamist party, Al Badil Al Hadari, Mohammed Merouani who heads the illegal Umma Party and the alleged group ringleader Abdelkader Balliraj.

The report said those arrested had ties to radical Islam. It did not specify what type of plots the alleged terror group had been planning.

Police said they had probed "the ramifications and connections of the network with others active in Morocco and abroad."

Asharq al-Awsat said that a well informed security source refused to comment on the link between Abdel Hafiz al-Saryati, the correspondent of Hizbullah's Al Manar TV, and the others arrested over the alleged terror plot.(Naharnet-AP-AFP) (Photo courtesy of Asharq al-Awsat is of Abdel Hafiz al-Saryati)